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English noun: payback | |||
| 1. | payback (possession) financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | ||
| 2. | payback (act) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | ||
| Samples | Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. He swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him. The swiftness of divine retribution. | ||
| Synonyms | retribution, vengeance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | retaliation, revenge | ||
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